Occupational Medicine ST3

Please give details of any completed postgraduate medical qualifications/other degrees/ diplomas/ certificates (e.g. MD, MRCP, MRCPCH etc.). Where a qualification is partly completed please state your exam status e.g. MRCP (Part 1) etc. For an MD please state whether this is linked to your primary medical qualification or the result of an independent research thesis. Please include here any relevant qualifications listed as essential on the person specification. (Words allowed: 250)

Please read the explanation carefully and choose your option accordingly as you will not be able to change it later.

You can choose one option only.

I am applying for:

  • An NHS Training post only. (As an NHS applicant, your application will enter the process of offers for NHS Training posts).
  • An Military training post only and have applied for the national recruitment process for benchmarking purposes (open to military applicants only). (As a Military benchmarking applicant, your application will be withdrawn prior to offers being made for NHS Training posts).
  • An Industry training post only and have applied for the national recruitment process for benchmarking purposes. (As an Industry benchmarking applicant, your application will be withdrawn prior to offers being made for NHS Training posts).
  • I want to benchmark for an Industry post AND apply for an NHS Training post. (If you wish to withdraw your NHS application, you must contact the National Recruitment Office prior to the NHS post offer process).

Please confirm your eligibility to enter ST3 Occupational Medicine Training?

  • Currently employed in a UK core or specialty training programme, which leads to successful completion of CT2/ST2-level by the advertised post start date
  • Successful completion of CT2/ST2 in a UK core or specialty training programme, as evidenced by ARCP (an outcome 1 or 6)
  • Completion of CT2/ST2 level of a UK core or specialty training programme with ARCP outcome other then [sic] 1 or 6. This is evidenced by ARCP outcome and a Certificate of Completion of Common Professional Capabilities at time of application
  • Not undergone two years of UK core/specialty training but submitting a Certificate of Completion of Common Professional Capabilities at time of application and have at least 24 months experience (not including foundation level experience), in the same specialty area, by the advertised post start date

Please refer to the ‘Self-Assessment Guidance’ document for full guidance.

Use the spaces below to provide information to demonstrate why you chose the achievement for each question. Your statement, along with your evidence, will be checked by interviewers to confirm your choice was not over-scored.

If you do not have an achievement in that area, please put ‘N/A’ in the relevant box.

  • DOccMed : 1
  • None of the above : 0

Please include details of the qualification awarded, institution/awarding body and dates (100 words)

  • I was awarded a Distinction during my undergraduate medical training : 2
  • I was awarded a Prize or Merit during my undergraduate medical training : 1
  • I was not awarded one : 0

Use the space provided to provide information to demonstrate why you chose the score from the corresponding list above. Please specify any honours degrees, prizes, awards and other distinctions you have gained (100 words)

  • Have made a significant contribution to postgraduate audit projects (e.g. managed an audit project, made recommendations for changes to practice based on audit findings, closed the audit loop) - one or more project a year and at least 1 presented at a regional, national or international meeting : 4
  • Have made a significant contribution to postgraduate audit projects (e.g. managed an audit project, made recommendations for changes to practice based on audit findings, closed the audit loop) - one a year or less and these presented at a Local meeting : 3
  • Have made a significant contribution to postgraduate audit projects e.g. managed an audit project, made recommendations for changes to practice based on audit findings, but have not closed the audit loop : 2
  • Have taken part in other people’s postgraduate audits, (ie data collection) or made other minor contributions, not led or designed the audit : 1
  • None of the above : 0

Use the space provided to provide information to demonstrate why you chose the score from the corresponding list above (250 words)

  • Completion of a PhD with original research : 4
  • Significant involvement in research e.g. two-year MD with original research : 3
  • I have had some personal and direct involvement with planning or running a postgraduate research project : 2
  • I have had no involvement in any aspect of research : 0

Use the space provided to provide information to demonstrate why you chose the score from the corresponding list above (250 words)

  • I have made a major contribution to a local/national teaching programme including organising a programme OR have a recognised qualification in teaching e.g. Diploma in Medical Education, Masters in Medical Education : 4
  • I have some experience in formal teaching Health Professionals (e.g. lectures) and/or I have some experience of formal teaching Health-related topics to a non-medical audience (e.g. lectures) : 3
  • I have attended a Teaching the Teachers course, Generic Instructors course or similar : 2
  • I have carried out informal teaching of colleagues (including nurses and medical students) : 1
  • I have not contributed to teaching : 0

Use the space provided to provide information to demonstrate why you chose the score from the corresponding list above (250 words)

  • I am first author in more than one peer-reviewed publication as a postgraduate : 4
  • I am first author on one peer-reviewed publication as a postgraduate : 3
  • I am co-author in more than one peer-reviewed publication as a postgraduate : 2
  • I am co-author in one peer-reviewed publication as a postgraduate or I am an author of an undergraduate publication : 1
  • I have not published anything : 0

Use the space provided to provide information to demonstrate why you chose the score from the corresponding list above (250 words)

  • I have presented at a regional, national or international meeting : 4
  • I have presented at a local meeting : 2
  • I have made a departmental presentation : 1
  • I have made no presentations : 0

Use the space provided to provide information to demonstrate why you chose the score from the corresponding list above (250 words)

  • I have achieved a poster at a regional, national or international meeting : 2
  • I have achieved a poster at a local or departmental meeting : 1
  • I have achieved no posters : 0

Use the space provided to provide information to demonstrate why you chose the score from the corresponding list above (250 words)

  • Description of feedback and reflection - able to relate a relevant episode of reflection Articulate and confident description. Used the experience to reflect on an aspect of occupational medicine practice in the context of them preparing to work in the specialty : 4
  • Description of feedback and reflection - able to relate a relevant episode of reflection, merely reflecting on an aspect of occupational medicine practice, demonstrating how they made a change to their current practice : 2
  • Little evidence of feedback or reflection - limited awareness of the relationship between health and work : 1
  • No evidence of reflection : 0

Use the space provided to provide information to demonstrate why you chose the score from the corresponding list above (300 words)

 

As part of the application, we are asking you to prioritise a list of activities that a specialist in Occupational Medicine may face on a daily basis. Please note that you are asked to rank each issue in the order in which you intend to deal with it. Importantly you must also provide the justification of your prioritisation in the space provided.

Context

You are an NHS consultant occupational health physician who works with an ST4 resident doctor who works less than full time (60% whole time equivalent). Tomorrow is your last day of work before 2 weeks of annual leave and the resident doctor is covering on their own with an experienced senior nurse in your absence. You are required to work through the in-tray and decide on the most appropriate action for each item and the priority that it should be given.

Starting with the highest priority (number 1) to the lowest (number 8). Please number your entries -there cannot be joint priorities.

  • You have seen a nurse because of long-term sickness absence with ‘stress’. She is a single mother of an 8 months old baby who sees the GP every two months to repeat prescription for sertraline. She is clearly psychotic without insight. You need to flag safeguarding concerns.
  • One of the OH nurses wishes to discuss with you an ambulance driver they saw for back pain and found out the ambulance driver had 2 episodes of loss of consciousness for 5 seconds each in the last two weeks.
  • Return a call to the HR Director who is very dissatisfied with your report.
  • Review a spirometry of a baker who has shown rapid decline in the respiratory surveillance result and reports a new cough every time she is at work.
  • Completing a CBD outcome for your occupational medicine resident whose ARCP is in 3 days’ time.
  • Complete a report on the Managing Director of a bank, who was referred to you due to concerns about possible cocaine abuse.
  • The headmaster of a school wishes to talk to you about a trainee teacher, who has regular arguments with other colleagues about changes of plan and location of her placement, and whether she might be on the autism spectrum.
  • Review questionnaires from employees taking part in a health promotion project on heart disease in a large client company.

Please explain the rationale for your ranking, focusing on the two top and two bottom priorities. (500 words)

 

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